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Jan 01

Sleeper Story of the Year 2013

Communisn’t  (what it used to be)

There are at least 83 billionaires in China’s parliament. Not bad for the world’s largest communist country where approximately 800 million (of 1.35 billion) Chinese live on less than $15 a day and where the average per capita income is approximately $9,100.  Meanwhile in America,  the world’s largest capitalist economy with an average per capita income of roughly $49,800, there are no billionaires in Congress. (Ref: How Communist Can China Be With All Those Billionaires? )

 

Runner Up:   Disabled America: where work is for suckers

Almost 10% of working-age Americans are on disability.  One reporter located a county in Alabama (pop. 15,388) where nearly 1 in 4 working-age adults are on disability.